Build Strong Memories

Control forgetting with smart practice.

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Practice for long-term recall.

The Membean Adaptive Reinforcement Engine handles your
practice routine so you don’t have to worry about knowing when
to study. It adapts to your individual learning style and knows
when a practice will do your memory the most good. You’ll see
each word just enough times to know it cold. By taking
guesswork and pain out of practice, you’ll have more time to
learn your words and remember them longer. Membean makes your practice smart and highly efficient.
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There are many causes of recall failure — Membean addresses all of them.

Failure to transfer into long-term memory

If no learning happens, there’s nothing to remember. Learning
involves transferring new information into your long-term memory
store. Many things can go wrong during this transfer.

Attention Failure

Your senses register an amazing amount of detail, but details
are held in your sensory memory for only a very short time.
If you don’t direct your attention deliberately on what you
want to study, it’s quickly lost. Most attention failures
are simply due to boredom. Membean’s rich visualizations and
simple content, combined with timed learning sessions, keep
you interested and focused.

Selection Failure

If you don’t choose the right things to learn, you’ll not
only perform poorly on the exam but also waste a
considerable amount of time. Membean
Word Memlets
provide carefully selected pieces of information on each
word — all on one page.

Encoding Failure

New words are learned best if you can build bridges from
them to what you already know about the world — a
process known as encoding. Relating a memory to multiple
other memories makes it stronger. Each Membean
Word Memlet
helps you build an additional connection. You won’t just
memorize a word — you’ll really understand it.

Failure to retrieve from long-term memory

Although a word is in long-term memory it can still be hard to
retrieve it. It’s like trying to find a friend at a very crowded
party. You know she’s there somewhere but you just can’t find
her.

Interference

New memories actively interfere with older memories, making
them difficult to get to. The only reliable way to mitigate
this is practice. By monitoring your learning
process, Membean determines when a word is suffering from
interference and boosts its strength with a quick practice.

Weak Environment Cues

It’s much easier to recall the capital of Thailand if
you’re told that it starts with a “B”. Sometimes the test
question doesn’t give you enough clues to trigger your
memory. Membean consolidates your memory with smart practice
so you’ll know the word cold. Even with very few hints
you’ll be able to recall the word and its associated
information on exam day.